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After two straight weeks of declines, new listings in MRED’s marketplace saw an 8% week-over-week increase. The 6,432 new listings during the first full week of August still fell 17% short of new listings during the same span in 2021.

See the full weekly market snapshot.

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MRED’s marketplace saw its usual end-of-the-month increase in closed listings to round out July. The 25% week-over-week bump to 3,042 closed listings was still 34% shy of last year’s total during the same span.

See the weekly market snapshot.

New listings in MRED’s marketplace fell 7% week-over-week. That weekly decrease accompanied an 18% annual decline in the same metric. That’s the largest annual new listings decrease since early March.

See more in the Weekly Market Snapshot.

MRED’s marketplace saw less than a half percent increase in total active listings last week. But that bump was enough to set an eight-month high in active listing with 49,226. This trend continues even as new listings have been down on a year-over-year basis for more than five months.

Click here to see the full report.